page_title: Love
section_title: Indian
hierarchical_section_title: Love / Cultural views / Indian
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Krishna et Radha dans un pavillon
context_page_description: Love encompasses a range of strong and positive emotional and mental states, from the most sublime virtue or good habit, the deepest interpersonal affection and to the simplest pleasure. An example of this range of meanings is that the love of a mother differs from the love of a spouse, which differs from the love of food. Most commonly, love refers to a feeling of strong attraction and emotional attachment.
  Love is considered to be a positive and negative: with its virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection, as "the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another"; and its vice representing human moral flaw, akin to vanity, selfishness, amour-propre, and egotism, as it potentially leads people into a type of mania, obsessiveness or codependency. It may also describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, one's self or animals. In its various forms, love acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts.
context_section_description: In contemporary literature, kama refers usually to sexual desire. However, the term also refers to any sensory enjoyment, emotional attraction and aesthetic pleasure such as from arts, dance, music, painting, sculpture and nature.
  The concept of kama is found in some of the earliest known verses in Vedas. For example, Book 10 of Rig Veda describes the creation of the universe from nothing by the great heat. There in hymn 129, it states:
  कामस्तदग्रे समवर्तताधि मनसो रेतः परथमं यदासीत |
  
  सतो बन्धुमसति निरविन्दन हर्दि परतीष्याकवयो मनीषा ||
  
  Thereafter rose Desire in the beginning, Desire the primal seed and germ of Spirit,
  
  Sages who searched with their heart's thought discovered the existent's kinship in the non-existent.
  — Rig Veda, ~ 15th century BC
caption: Hindu god Krishna and his consort Radha making love
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